original artwork by Rebecca Burton
T'was about
mid
after-
noon ~
When
I
come
saunterin' in ~
With a
lop-
sided
grin ~
Sat me-
self up-
on
a stoooooool ~
Ordered
a beer
tall n'
coooooool ~
The barmaid
was
no longer
Burt ~
But a new one
was there
with which
to flirt ~
Easy
come
easy
goooooooes ~
This
one's
name
was Rose...
Footprint 82
So
where
was
that ~
Where
I
was
at ~
This
Deep
Desert
place ~
With
such
a
strange
face ~
Silence singing on
it's purple breath
like one thousand
Jimi Hendrix guitars ~
Under a
hat
full of
stars ~
The sun peeking
out of
its
eye ~
With
humor
so
dry?
Who was
that
masked
man ~
Who was nothin'
but
rocks
and sand ~
With-
out
any
trees ~
But
with
a purple
breeze ~
And a nose
made
of
cardboard?
Please
answer
me,
my sweet Lord...
Footprint 83
Welllllll
at
any
rate, folks ~
Without
cracking
any
jokes ~
Every book ought to
have
in it
a sex scene ~
Good
for
the
spleen ~
And
you
just read
mine ~
Wasn't it
tit-
ilating-
ly fine?
What
do
you
think?
A skeleton man and
a skeleton woman
getting it on
with a beef hot link...
Footprint 84
So I wound-up
sitting
in
the local saloon ~
Nursing my
beer
and nursing
my wound ~
And contemplating
nothing more than a
new-found vision of the
Face of Death ~
'Til
I
had
bad breath...
Footprint 85
Oh
purrrrrrr-
ple
cloud ~
Glowin'
purrrrrrrple
so deep
so loud ~
Rollin'
rollin'
rollin' thru 'de pure
desert sky ~
Oh deep
purrrrrrrple
mist in which I sailed
so smooth n' high ~
With Your majesty
spreadin' out
all a-
round ~
Without
a whisper
with-
out a sound ~
A majesty profound
enough to
make me strip
n' cry n' kneel n' bow ~
Oh
purrrrrrrty
Purple Thing,
where are you now?
~~~
Rose
modeled by Jessica Alba in the role of Max Guevara in the TV series
Dark Angel
~~~